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/ɪndˈɪdʒənəs lˈæŋgwədʒ/ Listen

Indigenous language

noun

A language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere.

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"Indigenous language" Quotes from Famous Books

... our own tongue, and of the Arabic to the Spanish, there is no such thing throughout the whole length and breadth of Hindostan as a dialect descended from the Sanskrit, or a spot whereon that famous tongue can be shown to have existed as a spoken and indigenous language. ...

— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham

Words linked to "Indigenous language" : substrate, language, linguistic communication, substratum